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later designated as “Malay Peninsula?” (=
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by
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.
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West Malaysia Water Snake (
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)
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records.
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<taxonomicName id="C7F9E1E6FF4FB8A3FF0B405778A6087B" authorityName="Tweedie" authorityYear="1953" box="[247,424,1806,1832]" class="Reptilia" family="Homalopsidae" genus="Enhydris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="213" pageNumber="214" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="indica">
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—Smith, 1930: 60.—Tweedie, 1953: 86.—Tweedie, 1961: 89.—
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.—Tweedie, 1983: 102.—B.L. Lim
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4FB8A3FDA2406A7B96081F" box="[606,664,1842,1868]" italics="true" pageId="213" pageNumber="214">et al.</emphasis>
, 1995: 360.—
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.—N. Baker &amp; K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.—K.K.P.
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.—
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.—N. Baker &amp; K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.—J.C. Murphy &amp; Voris, 2014: 33.—Thomas
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4FB8A3FC7840227AB208C7" box="[900,956,1914,1940]" italics="true" pageId="213" pageNumber="214">et al.</emphasis>
, 2014: 309.—Wallach
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4FB8A3FB3C40227DF608C7" box="[1216,1272,1914,1940]" italics="true" pageId="213" pageNumber="214">et al.</emphasis>
, 2014: 269.
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—Quah
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4FB8A3FDFE40C67B3308EB" box="[514,573,1950,1976]" italics="true" pageId="213" pageNumber="214">et al.</emphasis>
, 2018b: 5364.—
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</treatmentCitation>
.—I.S.
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Law
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, 2020: 165
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(Upper
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Seletar).
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<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FF6B47CE78050FE2" bold="true" box="[151,267,151,177]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">Remarks.</emphasis>
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is Singapores most recent rediscovery, the presence of this species on the island was previously represented by only
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deposited at the Dublin Museum (NMI) that was identified by Boulenger and first brought to attention by Smith (1930). Many researchers found the
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record doubtful (
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; Tweedie 1983;
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,
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; Wallach
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2014), and Murphy (2007) stated that “[t]he
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locality is highly problematic”. Despite the uncertainty, the presence of
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in
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was substantiated on
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when a live individual was found swimming in a drain at
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(
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Law
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2020
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) (
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). Prior to this rediscovery, nothing much was known of the specimen at NMI, but
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Law
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(2020)
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discussed that it was collected in 1914 at a rubber estate at Bukit Sembawang by a Professor Johnson. Thus,
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went undetected a period of 106 years in
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(
<tableCitation id="4D7BAFDEFF4CB8A0FF03468278580EA6" box="[255,342,475,501]" captionStart="TABLE 2" captionStartId="16.[152,254,432,458]" captionTargetBox="[207,1414,726,1982]" captionText="TABLE 2. Checklist of the 166 herpetofauna species of Singapore, the year the first specimen was reported or collected, status in Singapore, and number of years went unreported from Singapore prior to 1990. If the reference is from a museum collection, then the museum symbolic code is listed. Under status, IND = Indeterminate (possibly extirpated). Year in parentheses under the last column is the year the species was last reported from Singapore. The herpetofauna of Singapore comprises 31 amphibians and 135 reptiles consisting of two caecilians, 29 frogs (five non-native), 1 crocodilian, 17 turtles (four non-native), 40 lizards (6 non-native), and 77 snakes (two non-native). If the year collected is not specified, then the year reported is used in its place." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/5486CAEDFF8AB866FF6446E978550D95" pageId="214" pageNumber="215" tableUuid="5486CAEDFF8AB866FF6446E978550D95">Table 2</tableCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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is an extremely rare snake (Quah
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FC5D46A67AD00D4A" box="[929,990,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">et al.</emphasis>
2018b). For a long time, it was only known from five records including the NMI specimen (Tweedie 1983), until one was collected at Belum-Temengor, Peninsular
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(Lim
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FD5F451E7BD30D32" box="[675,733,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">et al.</emphasis>
1995). More recently, Quah
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(2018b) reported three new findings, bringing the total number of records to eight, and contributed the first photographs of a live specimen.
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was first described by Gray (1842) who gave “
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” as the origin of the
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from Hardwickes collection (
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).
<bibRefCitation id="6468E794FF4CB8A0FC7D45EA7D470D9E" author="Boulenger, G. A." box="[897,1097,691,717]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215" refId="ref292500" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1896) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III. Containing the Colubridae (Opisthoglyphae and Proteroglyphae), Amblycephalidae and Viperidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiv + 727 pp., 25 pls." type="book" year="1896">Boulenger (1896)</bibRefCitation>
then corrected the locality to “Malay Peninsula?”, which was accepted by
<bibRefCitation id="6468E794FF4CB8A0FD07458E7AAE0DA2" author="Flower, S. S." box="[763,928,727,753]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215" pagination="856 - 914" refId="ref305802" refString="Flower, S. S. (1896) Notes on a collection of reptiles and batrachians made in the Malay Peninsula in 1895 - 96; with a list of the species recorded from that region. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896 (4), 856 - 914, pls. 44 - 46." type="journal article" year="1896">Flower (1896)</bibRefCitation>
. Smith (1930) discussed that sometime after
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, Boulenger identified two additional specimens of
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, one from Taiping at the
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Museum and the NMI specimen. The fifth historic record was of a live individual collected at Bukit Mandol Forest Reserve in Klang, Peninsular
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(
<bibRefCitation id="6468E794FF4CB8A0FC5F441A7DBD0C0E" author="Lim, B. L. &amp; Kamarudin, M. S. B." box="[931,1203,834,861]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215" pagination="23 - 27" refId="ref324549" refString="Lim, B. L. &amp; Kamarudin, M. S. B. (1975) Notes on new locality records of some rare snakes in Peninsular Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal, 29 (1), 23 - 27." type="journal article" year="1975">Lim &amp; Kamarudin 1975</bibRefCitation>
). The recent findings reported by Quah
<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FE38443E78F30CD2" box="[452,509,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">et al.</emphasis>
(2018b) were of
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taken at Lubuk Yu and one photographed at Lake Chini. The recent rediscovery in
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brings the total number of records for
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to nine, and contributes additional photographic documentation and morphometric data.
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<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FF6B448B78240CBF" bold="true" box="[151,298,978,1004]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">Occurrence.</emphasis>
Known only from
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predating 1930 and on specimen discovered in 2020.
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conservation status.
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Critically Endangered.
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<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FF6B434378AF0B67" bold="true" box="[151,417,1050,1076]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">Conservation priority.</emphasis>
Highest.
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<emphasis id="328D4677FF4CB8A0FF6B436778DC0B0A" bold="true" box="[151,466,1086,1113]" pageId="214" pageNumber="215">IUCN conservation status.</emphasis>
Data Deficient [2010].
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&amp;
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Museum specimens.
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No specimens.
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Additional
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museum specimens. Bukit Sembawang:
</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
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localities.
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Bukit Sembawang*—Upper Seletar (not specified).
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Family
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(1 species)
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